In 2009 Leopolitan fans of ethno-folk music came together to form Lviv’s first official EthnoClub, which aims to promote the ethno-music genre to new and younger audiences. The club’s first big event of 2011 will be a concert from ’ZIRA’ – a band that brings together a diverse range of ethno influences in a blend of music that is just about as multicultural as a Lebanese mufti drinking Nepalese goat’s milk while reciting Mayan poetry in a South London sushi bar. The band’s name is an acronym for ‘Zemskyi I Reznichenko Ansambl’ (Zemskyi & Reznichenko's Ensemble). The duet of Dmytro Zemskyi and Oleg Reznichenko is an exotic combination in itself – while one graduated from Odessa Conservatoire majoring in guitar, the other is a self-taught musician with a resume which includes trash-metal, heavy-metal-jazz and post-punk projects. For more information please call +38032-2975612.